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The chart from statista shows global auto suppliers ranking by their revenue split.German companies continental and Bosch with automotive segment revenue of around 33.3 billion euros takes the top 2 ranking ,while Canadian company Magna ranked 3rd with around $30billion revenues .

western europe instore retail sales by country breakup:

Western europe retail sales by country breakup: 

UK, Germany and Sweden tops western europe retail sales ( except the items autos , gas tickets, holiday and travel bookings). The latest data from Europe's centre for retailresearch compares the   retail sales by European nations by year 2014 and 2015

spain,uk,ireland and portugal among europe's fastest growing ad makets

YEAR ON YEAR AD GROWTH 2015 VS 2016

The latest data from Carat, the leading global media network reflects continued optimism on its updated forecasts for worldwide advertising expenditure in 2015 and 2016, 
global advertising spends across Top 10  markets of western  europe is likely to remain positive  and will see solid growth across Digital and Mobile  channels 

 Western Europe returned to positive territory in 2014, with +2.8% growth. In 2015, a similar growth rate of +2.6%  was  forecast with a further increase of +2.9% predicted for 2016.

The European markets showing the highest growth in the region this year and in 2016 are Spain, UK, Ireland and Portugal,whilst in Greece advertising spend has been revised down to -12.0% from +8.0% predicted in the March 2015 report

UK : In 2016  UK market is predicted  with a year on- year growth rate of +5.5%. The 2016 UEFA European Football Championships, at which it is possible that multiple home nations may qualify, is likely to start a summer of increased spending, with the 2016 Rio Olympic Games also driving some advertising revenue.

Germany will see a further increase in advertising spend of +1.7% is predicted for 2016, with no significant impact expected to come from the 2016 UEFA European Football Championships and 2016 Rio Olympics

Spain will see a further +6.9% growth is expected in 2016

The advertising market in France is forecast to reach €10billion in 2016, with a Television  accounting for 33% share of total ad spends along with 5% increase in  digital in 2016

In 2016 Italy will see a growth of 0.7% in overall advertising. The TV market in Italy declined by 3% as print media during the first half of the year is down by -10%.

Russia  will start to recover from Q2-Q3 2016. In 2015, only digital media will show increase in spend  with +5.7% growth. Online Video is will be growing fastest with  +15% yearly growth

french venture funds that funds up to $5million across early stage local start ups

Here is the complete list of French VC start ups that " provide  funding to ocal french start ups to the tune of $5 million  . This list had been published by Andy Romans at Rubicon.  This list is not final list, there might be some other VC which we missed out. In case you wish your " VC " firm to get listed, you can tweet me at twitter.com/aerosmith071 or send me a mail at sumit_roy74@hotmail.com

1	CDC Entreprises	Paris, France	Venture Capital	US$ 1,923	21
2	CM-CIC Capital Prive	Paris, France	Investment Bank	US$ 373	13
3	Amundi SA	Paris, France		US$ 826,684	12
4	Credit Agricole Private Equity	Paris, France		US$ 4,456	12
5	Seventure Partners SA	Paris, France	Venture Capital	US$ 601	11
6	Idinvest Partners	Paris, France	Venture Capital	US$ 3,366	10
7	XAnge Private Equity	Paris, France		US$ 353	9
8	Auriga Partners SA	Paris, France	Venture Capital	US$ 397	8
9	Sofinnova Partners	Paris, France		US$ 1,328	8
10	A Plus Finance	Paris, France		US$ 66	7
11	Emertec Gestion	Grenoble, France	Venture Capital	US$ 144	7
12	Serena Capital SAS	Paris, France	Venture Capital	US$ 120	7
13	Ventech SA	Paris, France	Venture Capital	US$ 439	7
14	Alto Invest	Le Chesnay, France			6
15	Alven Capital	Paris, France	Venture Capital	US$ 180	6
16	Naxicap Partners SA	Paris, France		US$ 974	6
17	Oseo	Maisons-Alfort, France	Government	US$ 361	6
18	Edmond de Rothschild Investment Partners	Paris, France		US$ 580	5
19	Fonds Strategique d’Investissement	Paris, France			5
20	I-Source Gestion SA	Paris, France	Venture Capital	US$ 225	5
21	Innovacom SA	Paris, France	Corporate Venture Capital	US$ 541	5
22	Truffle Capital SAS	Paris, France	Venture Capital	US$ 462	5
23	123 Venture	Paris, France		US$ 180	4
24	ACE Management	Paris, France		US$ 166	4
25	Developpement et Partenariat	Paris, France		US$ 180	4
26	Gimv NV	Antwerp, Belgium		US$ 2,116	4
27	iXO Private Equity SAS	Toulouse, France		US$ 361	4
28	Oddo Asset Management	Paris, France		US$ 204	4
29	Sofimac Partners SA	Clermont-Ferrand, France		US$ 240	4
30	Sudinnova	Lyon, France	Venture Capital	US$ 54	4
31	Turenne Capital Partenaires SA	Paris, France		US$ 361	4
32	BNP Paribas Developpement	Paris, France		US$ 295	3
33	BNP Paribas Private Equity SAS	Paris, France		US$ 971	3
34	Cap Decisif Management	Paris, France	Venture Capital	US$ 58	3
35	CDC Innovation	Paris, France	Venture Capital	US$ 499	3
36	CEA Investissement	Grenoble, France	Government	US$ 18	3
37	CIC Banque de Vizille	Lyon, France			3
38	Entrepreneur Venture	Paris, France	Venture Capital	US$ 42	3
39	Jaina Capital SAS	Paris, France	Angel Investor	US$ 120	3
40	Masseran Gestion SAS	Paris, France	Venture Capital	US$ 56	3
41	Matignon Investissement & Gestion	Paris, France	Venture Capital	US$ 301	3
42	Midi Capital SAS	Toulouse, France		US$ 32	3
43	NextStage Aurel	Paris, France		US$ 176	3
44	OTC Asset Management SA	Paris, France		US$ 301	3
45	Societe Hospitaliere d’Assurances Mutuel	Lyon, France	Venture Capital		3
46	360 Capital Partners	Milan, Italy	Venture Capital	US$ 120	2
47	Apax Partners LLP	London, United Kingdom		US$ 20,000	2
48	Backbone SAS	Paris, France			2
49	Bioam Gestion	Paris, France	Venture Capital	US$ 67	2
50	Esfin Gestion	Courbevoie, France	Venture Capital	US$ 72	2

50 VENTURE CAPITAL FUNDING FIRMS THAT FUNDS EARLY STAGE FRENCH START UPS UPTO 5BILLION USD

lists of 10 start ups in france that saw the biggest vc investment

If you are looking at incubating a start up and not sure where to base you start up at Europe, look twice at France. France is the second largest VC market in Europe after the UK. If you take Scandinavia to be a single market then France comes in at 3rd place .

In France the government plays a very active role, at the national level, and it includes start up as a priority with  a cohesive policy (40 measures). These include a fiscal  tax freeze for all  start ups

France gov recently created  crowdfunding law allowing startups to raise up to €1 million and govt incentives to lauch start ups with grant of €30,000 to launch a new venture;

LIST OF 10 FRENCH START UPS  WHICH HAS RECEIVED THE HIGHEST VC FUNDING 

In 2015 France received VC and PE worth more than 2.4 billion Euro through 371 VC deals.The country  accounted for 2.1% of total global VC investment  and   represented 3% global VC deals

France also scores well in terms of " doing business".In 2014, only 4.5 days were required to found a company in rance, versus 6 in the UK and 14.5 in Germany (Doing Business, World Bank)

Among some of the French Govt incentives has been creation of
1) a €200 million French Tech Acceleration fund for Startup accelerator program;
 2)€500 million “Large Venture” fund for venture capital
3)€600 million of Regional Innovation Subsidies and another €600 million for the European Innovation Grants

2016 to see 4.7% increase in global advertising spends,share of online jumps 26%

YEAR ON YEAR AD SPENDING GROWTH RATES : NORTH AMERICA  AND  UNITED STATES

The latest Carat report on " global advertising spends"is based on the  data received from 59 markets across the Americas, Asia Pacific and EMEA,

Carat’s latest global advertising expenditure forecasts that global advertising spend will grow by +4.0% in 2015 to US $529billion, while  ad spends in  2016 is predicted to grow by +4.7%, accounting for an additional US$25billion in spending

Marketers will increase their Mobile and Online Video advertising spends especially across social media, with +51.2% and +22% year-on-year growth expected this year.Programmatic buying is also experiencing rapid growth at a rate of +20% each year.

GLOBAL ADVERTISING YEAR ON YEAR GROWTH : 2015 VS 2016

Western Europe remains stable with consistent year-on-year growth at +2.6% in 2015 and +2.9% in 2016 driven by positive momentum in the UK and Spain.

The online & digital  media,  share of  2015 advertising spends was 24.3% which will increase to 26.5% in 2016..Digital continues to be the only channel which is seeing double digital growth, predicted at +15.7% in 2015 and +14.3% in 2016

• Across 10 of the markets analysed, including the UK, Ireland, Canada and Australia, Digital is now the principle media used based on spend, with the US market predicted to join this list in 2018 when digital advertising spend is forecast to overtake TV advertising by more than US $4billion.
  
• The positive momentum of advertising spends  is expected to continue across the world at the 

1. Western Europe at +2.6%, 
2. North America +4.2%
3. Asia Pacific  at +4,1%
4. Latin America +12.7%

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mobile spends in europe set to exceed 50% of their digital media spends

IN EUROPE MOBILE SPENDS ON MARKETING AND PROMOTION SET TO TOUCH THE 50% OF OVERALL DIGITAL MARKETING SPENDS

• In UK  mobile spends in 2016 is expected to touch 49% of  total digital marketing spends
• Norway mobile ad spends will contribute 46%
• France and Denmark mobile will reach 31% in 2016
• Netherlands, Italy and Germany  will see its mobile spends reach 44% of their total digital budgets
• Germany mobile ad spends  will see the fastest growth in western europe with 13% increase . In 2015 mobile spends  in Germany contributed 31% of its online ad spends 
• Both Finland and Sweden will see their  mobile media spends  touch 45%

UK  rank first on Europe as the nation with the highest mobile  ad spends  49%,followed by Norway.Across Western Europe the average mobile ad spends out of total digital media spends is 44% 

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